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Levin was Tuesday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”. Here are his words:
“Hi, I’m Congressman Mike Levin. I’m proud to represent North County San Diego and South Orange County, with Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton at the heart of my district.
As we celebrate the holidays this year, we also mourn the loss of more than 320,000 Americans to this pandemic – including more than 5,500 veterans, a profound tragedy for our nation. Each individual lost was somebody’s parent or grandparent, a son or daughter, a friend or co-worker who will be deeply missed, especially during this holiday season.
Lobbying world Alex Gangitano
American Association of Nurse Practitioners named
Jon Fanning as its new CEO, effective March 1. He is currently chief strategy officer at the American Psychiatric Association, where he has worked for more than seven years. Before that, he spent over 13 years at the American Medical Association.
Laura Dove was promoted to manager of federal affairs at
Ford Motor Co. She joined Ford in May as director of transportation policy and previously was U.S. Senate secretary for the majority under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Ford also promoted
Rachel McCleery to a director position on the government relations team. She previously was Ford s government and public policy communications manager and before that was chief communications adviser and deputy policy director for Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. During the Obama administration, she was a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department.
After controversial event on sexual assault support, VA postpones future telephone town halls December 21, 2020 A screenshot from the Department of Veterans Affairs web site advertises the Veterans Benefits Administration s telephone town hall series. The Dec. 22 event was postponed by officials in recent days following controversy surrounding the event focused on military sexual trauma.
Veterans Affairs officials have agreed to delay upcoming telephone town halls with veterans following criticism from sexual assault victims and their advocates that one recent event traumatized listeners because of the department’s callous approach to the issue. The event, held last Thursday, involved cold calls to thousands of veterans inviting them into a live group discussion about military sexual assault and VA benefits. It was part of a series of outreach efforts by the Veterans Benefits Administration in recent months.
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On Friday, well-known nursing home personal injury law firm Levin & Perconti announced it was launching investigations on behalf of four families of dead veterans, a precursor to filing suit against the state.
Michael Bonamarte, an attorney handling the cases, said it was indefensible for the outbreak at LaSalle to have become so widespread and deadly eight months into the pandemic, especially after healthcare professionals both in Illinois and around the world learned from nursing home outbreaks in the spring.
“At this point in the game, with all the knowledge we have, in my opinion, it’s inexcusable to see an outbreak of this nature,” Bonamarte told NPR Illinois. “It’s mind-boggling to me how something like that can happen at this stage in the pandemic.”